Track and Field in Arizona – April 21, 2008
Track and Field is alive and well in Arizona. A lot a good kids in the high schools. I haven’t seen a dirt track yet, only all-weather surfaces. I guess it’s kind of tough to run in sand!
USA T&F: There’s only one college in the Phoenix area that uses officials – ASU. Their event director assigns us and uses everyone. No pay. They have used the same 2 starters for all their home meets for the last 12 years and they will do the PAC-10 championships in May. One of the starters was trained in California back in the 80’s and is very good! I’ll probably work the PAC-10 as a clerk. We have the Paralympics Trials for Beijing here at ASU in June, and I have signed up for that. We also have the Region X Junior Olympics here this year in July. They only run events in the morning and the evening – we take a siesta in the afternoon or jump in the pool! I have started 3 or 4 Youth Meets and Masters Meets. The youth meets are really well run. The 2 day Phoenix Invitational 2 weeks ago was huge – 1550 races, 3 starters! Three times I stood in one place and started one event until I went through a box of shells, then we switched places… whew!
High School: All officials for all the sports are assigned through the AIA (Arizona Interscholastic Association), except Track and Field. We are the “orphan child” at the moment, but getting closer to being trained and organized. Each track starter seeks out their own meets to do. They are all held on Wednesdays. There are about 130 certified track officials and only 16 starters, 10 of which are certified to start championships meets. Because of my experience in California, I was put right in to that last group (Level 3, I think it is called). There are 5 divisions in track and they are combined into 3 state tracks meets on the second weekend in May. So, I have already been assigned to start one of the state meets. That was a pleasant surprise! The dual meets during the course of the year are usually started by coaches or teachers they can find. They are used to running their own meets, and so they do a very good job. They really don’t need starters or officials, except when it comes to enforcing the rules – jewelry, uniforms, ipods, sector lines, etc. The kids don’t get that enforcement until the end of the season, or at combined invitational meets. When schools do “big” meets - invitationals, etc. - they usually call in about 10 of us to be head officials at the events. Track and Field is a great sport, and we are always looking for more volunteers and officials to help out. If interested, let me know, and I will get you in touch with a local organization!
Monday, April 21, 2008
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I Remember “Incorporation”
I think that I am the only employee left in the company that was present for the dedication service of the new corporation, Trinity Worldwide Reprographics Inc held outside the present Murrieta Corporate Headquarters on a clear Sunday afternoon in June 2003 (I think). Some of our present staff may have been there, but they weren’t employees yet.
I had an epiphany that day! Before the service, I couldn’t figure out what a copy business was doing calling itself “Trinity” and trying to do ministry. (Or as Suellen at USC would later say: aren’t you mixing church and state? But I didn’t understand that statement either!) But after that service, I started to understand a little about where we were trying to go! And today, it is a beautiful thing!
I believe the vision was borne out of a deep love for God and a sincere desire to do everything possible to serve and honor Him, and bring the good news of Jesus’ love and forgiveness to as many people as possible! It was a fabulous response to blessings that had already been received!
Great things began to happen! Was it luck, was it chance, was it because we were so good in God’s eyes, was it because we were serving Him better than we were before incorporation? No, we look back now, and give God all the credit! He did it, He led us, He chose out of His grace (His love that we didn’t deserve) to bring us along to this point. We can look back and see that it was His plan and His will. As Joseph said to his brothers in Genesis 50:20, “…..God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
But will He always bless us in that same way? Can we be sure that our growth and success is always God’s plan for us? He will ALWAYS bless us, that is sure! He has promised to be with us always to the very end of the age. But how He chooses to bless us, we don’t know now, not yet, until it happens, and then we shall see and feel His blessing. Jesus said in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Does that mean more money? Maybe. Does that mean health? Does that mean only good things? It means something, but what? Maybe it means strength in bad times. Maybe it means peace and contentment. Maybe Jesus is promising to always hold us in His hands, as Scripture mentions in other places. The Apostle wrote in Romans 8:28, “We know that in all things God works for the good of those that love Him…” I believe that God will bless us in the way that He chooses to bless us! And since we trust in His love in all things, we will be happy with whatever that blessing maybe!
Trinity has already been such a blessing to employees, customers, churches and many others! We are thankful for the vision that made it all happen! Let us do all that we can in planning, organizing, working, speaking, caring and loving one another to continue to bless people! And let us look forward to God’s blessings in the future, in whatever forms they may take! Big or small, seen or unseen, in our lifetime or the next, let us then be prepared to be thankful for them!
1 Corinthians 15:58, “…. stand firm, let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”
God’s Will: He wants us to come to faith, stay in the faith and share the faith.
God’s Plan: He sent Jesus, Jesus sends us His Holy Spirit to work faith, the
Holy Spirit guides us to witness our faith.
How to follow His Will & Plan: Study the Scriptures. He leads, we follow.
We propose, He disposes (see Proverbs 16:9)
In all things at all times:
Worship Him in prayer, words and actions!
I Remember “Incorporation”
I think that I am the only employee left in the company that was present for the dedication service of the new corporation, Trinity Worldwide Reprographics Inc held outside the present Murrieta Corporate Headquarters on a clear Sunday afternoon in June 2003 (I think). Some of our present staff may have been there, but they weren’t employees yet.
I had an epiphany that day! Before the service, I couldn’t figure out what a copy business was doing calling itself “Trinity” and trying to do ministry. (Or as Suellen at USC would later say: aren’t you mixing church and state? But I didn’t understand that statement either!) But after that service, I started to understand a little about where we were trying to go! And today, it is a beautiful thing!
I believe the vision was borne out of a deep love for God and a sincere desire to do everything possible to serve and honor Him, and bring the good news of Jesus’ love and forgiveness to as many people as possible! It was a fabulous response to blessings that had already been received!
Great things began to happen! Was it luck, was it chance, was it because we were so good in God’s eyes, was it because we were serving Him better than we were before incorporation? No, we look back now, and give God all the credit! He did it, He led us, He chose out of His grace (His love that we didn’t deserve) to bring us along to this point. We can look back and see that it was His plan and His will. As Joseph said to his brothers in Genesis 50:20, “…..God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
But will He always bless us in that same way? Can we be sure that our growth and success is always God’s plan for us? He will ALWAYS bless us, that is sure! He has promised to be with us always to the very end of the age. But how He chooses to bless us, we don’t know now, not yet, until it happens, and then we shall see and feel His blessing. Jesus said in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Does that mean more money? Maybe. Does that mean health? Does that mean only good things? It means something, but what? Maybe it means strength in bad times. Maybe it means peace and contentment. Maybe Jesus is promising to always hold us in His hands, as Scripture mentions in other places. The Apostle wrote in Romans 8:28, “We know that in all things God works for the good of those that love Him…” I believe that God will bless us in the way that He chooses to bless us! And since we trust in His love in all things, we will be happy with whatever that blessing maybe!
Trinity has already been such a blessing to employees, customers, churches and many others! We are thankful for the vision that made it all happen! Let us do all that we can in planning, organizing, working, speaking, caring and loving one another to continue to bless people! And let us look forward to God’s blessings in the future, in whatever forms they may take! Big or small, seen or unseen, in our lifetime or the next, let us then be prepared to be thankful for them!
1 Corinthians 15:58, “…. stand firm, let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”
God’s Will: He wants us to come to faith, stay in the faith and share the faith.
God’s Plan: He sent Jesus, Jesus sends us His Holy Spirit to work faith, the
Holy Spirit guides us to witness our faith.
How to follow His Will & Plan: Study the Scriptures. He leads, we follow.
We propose, He disposes (see Proverbs 16:9)
In all things at all times:
Worship Him in prayer, words and actions!
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